The Laughing Policeman

Author : Maj Sjöwall
Publisher : Orion
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Laughing Policeman written by Maj Sjöwall and published by Orion. This book was released on 1971 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a cold and rainy Stockholm night, nine bus riders are gunned down by an unknown assassin. The press, anxious for an explanation for the seemingly random crime, quickly dubs him a madman. But Superintendent Martin Beck of the Stockholm Homicide Squad suspects otherwise. This apparently motiveless killer has managed to target one of Beck2s best detectives--and he, surely, would not have been riding that lethal bus without a reason, Beck retraces his steps and chases year-old clues to a crime long thought unsolvable.

Author : Miles Franklin
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
ISBN 13 : 1742699448
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Brilliant Career written by Miles Franklin and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'This is not a romance - I have too often faced the music of life to the tune of hardship to waste time in snivelling and gushing over fancies and dreams; neither is it a novel, but simply a yarn - a real yarn. Oh!' First published in 1901, this Australian classic is the candid tale of the aspirations and frustrations of sixteen-year-old Sybylla Melvin, a headstrong country girl constrained by middle-class social arrangements, especially the pressure to marry. Trapped on her parents' outback farm, Sybylla simultaneously loves bush life and hates the physical burdens it imposes. She longs for a more refined lifestyle - to read, to think, to sing - but most of all to do great things. Suddenly her life is transformed when she is whisked away to live on her grandmother's gracious property. There Sybylla falls under the eye of the rich and handsome Harry Beecham. Soon she finds herself choosing between everything a conventional life offers and her own plans for a 'brilliant career'.

Author : Maj Sjowall
Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
ISBN 13 : 0307390470
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Man on the Balcony written by Maj Sjowall and published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard. This book was released on 2009-02-10 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this chilling installment of “the first great series of police thrillers” (Michael Ondaatje, national bestselling author of Warlight) by an internationally renowned crime duo, superintendent Martin Beck investigates a string of child murders. In the once peaceful parks of Stockholm, a killer is stalking young girls and disposing their bodies. The city is on edge, and an undercurrent of fear has gripped its residents. Martin Beck, now a superintendent, has two possible witnesses: a silent, stone-cold mugger and a mute three year old boy. With the likelihood of another murder growing as each day passes, the police force work night and day. But their efforts have offered little insight into the methodology of the killer. Then a distant memory resurfaces in Beck's mind, and he may just have the break he needs.

Author : Maj Sjowall
Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
ISBN 13 : 0307390888
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Terrorists written by Maj Sjowall and published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard. This book was released on 2010-07-27 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The final novel in the Martin Beck mystery series by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö is a masterful, all consuming tale that rushes toward a thrilling, unexpected climax. With a new introduction by Dennis Lehane: "Tension so thick the reader could crack a tooth." An American senator is visiting Stockholm and Martin Beck must lead a team to protect him from an international gang of terrorists. However, in the midst of the fervor created by the diplomatic visit, a young, peace-loving woman is accused of robbing a bank. Beck is determined to prove her innocence, but gets trapped in the maze of police bureaucracy. To complicate matters a millionaire pornographer has been bludgeoned to death in his own bathtub. Filled with the twists and turns and the pulse pounding excitement that are the hallmarks of the Martin Beck novels, The Terrorists is the stunning conclusion to the incredible series that changed crime fiction forever.

Author : Maj Sjöwall
Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN 13 : 9780816157679
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Laughing Policeman written by Maj Sjöwall and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1993 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With its wonderfully observed lawmen (including the inimitable Martin Beck), its brilliantly rendered felons and their murky Stockholm underworld, and its deftly engineered plot, The Laughing Policeman is a classic of the police procedural and "must reading for anyone who claims to be Ýa student ̈ of the best detective fiction" ("Saturday Review").

Author : Robert Graysmith
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101145188
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Laughing Gorilla written by Robert Graysmith and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-10-06 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 1920s, in more than a dozen cities, over four years, and across two continents, women were being butchered. Eyewitneses claim the perpetrator was a hulking Bible-carrying brute who lumbered on all fours, and laughed maniacally with each new slaughter. The crimes haunted San Francisco Police Captain Charles Dullea, the last honest cop in one of the most notoriously corrupt departments in the country. But nothing could have prepared Dullea for where the case- and the truth-would take him.

Author : Flann O'Brien
Publisher : Pan
ISBN 13 : 9780330241588
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Third Policeman written by Flann O'Brien and published by Pan. This book was released on 1974 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the publication of The Third Policeman, Dalkey Archive Press now has all of O'Brien's fiction back in print.

Author : Maj Sjowall
Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
ISBN 13 : 0307744299
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fire Engine that Disappeared written by Maj Sjowall and published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard. This book was released on 2010-12-08 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lightning-paced fifth novel in the Martin Beck mystery series by the internationally renowned crime writing duo, Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, finds Beck investigating one of the strangest, most violent, and unforgettable crimes of his career.The incendiary device that blew the roof off a Stockholm apartment not only interrupted the small, peaceful orgy underway inside, it nearly took the lives of the building's eleven occupants. And if one of Martin Beck's colleagues hadn't been on the scene, the explosion would have led to a major catastrophe because somehow a regulation fire-truck has vanished. Was it terrorism, suicide, or simply a gas leak? And what if, anything, did the explosion have to do with the peculiar death earlier that day of a 46-year-old bachelor whose cryptic suicide note consisted of only two words: "Martin Beck"?

Author : Maj Sjowall
Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
ISBN 13 : 0307772845
Total Pages : 4 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Abominable Man written by Maj Sjowall and published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard. This book was released on 2010-11-03 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The striking seventh novel in the Martin Beck mystery series by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, finds Beck facing one of the greatest challenges in his professional career. The gruesome murder of a police captain in his hospital room reveals the unsavory history of a man who spent forty years practicing a horrible blend of strong-arm police work and shear brutality. Martin Beck and his colleagues feverishly comb Stockholm for the murderer, a demented and deadly rifleman, who has plans for even more chaos. As the tension builds and a feeling of imminent danger grips Beck, his investigation unearths evidence of police corruption. That’s when an even stronger sense of responsibility and something like shame urge him into taking a series of drastic steps, which lead to a shocking disaster.

Author : Maj Sjowall
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307496589
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Locked Room written by Maj Sjowall and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2009-09-09 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A woman robs a bank. A corpse is found shot through the heart in a room locked from within--no firearm in sight. To the eerily intuitive Inspector Martin Beck, these seemingly disparate cases are facets of the same puzzle, and solving it is of vital importance. Only by finding our what happened in the locked room can Beck--haunted by a near-fatal bullet wound and the demise of a soulless marriage--escape from an airtight prison of his own. From its classic premise, The Locked Room accelerates into an engrossing novel of the mind. Exploring the ramifications of egotism and intellect, luck and accident, and set against the backdrop of the inspired deductions and monstrous errors of Martin Beck and the Stockholm Homicide Squad, this tour de force of detection bears the unmistakable substance and gravity of real life. From the Trade Paperback edition.